I’m working on a art writing question and need a sample draft to help me learn.
In 1972, artist Robert Smithson wrote the following in the essay, Cultural Confinement:
“A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a
portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.”
Choose one work from the list and after providing a brief description of the selected
project, explain how it reflects Smithson’s comments. Elaborate on how the selected
work relates to customary exhibition practices and conventions of displays, and how it
reinforces or defies them.
Walter De Maria, The New York Earth Room, 1977
Agnes Denes, Wheatfield: A Confrontation, 1982
Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Placebo), 1991
Fred Wilson, Mining the Museum, Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, 1992
Rirkrit Tiravanija, Untitled (Free), 1992
Cory Arcangel, Super Mario Clouds, 2002
Thomas Hirschhorn, The Gramsci Monument, 2013
